“I enjoyed using the tools and doing the hands-on stuff, the club repairs, and it just built from there.”
That interest in repairs, technology and club making – and its place in golf history, most particularly in Australia – took deeper root when he began cutting advertisements for clubs from newspapers and golf magazines and pasting them in a humble booklet.
Interest became passion and passion became obsession. “I’ve been living and breathing this for 50 years.”
A life’s love of technology has manifested itself in Australia’s largest collection of golf clubs – around 5,000 – and certainly the most comprehensive in telling the story of golf club manufacturing in this country, and beyond.
Baker estimates that around 80 percent of his collection is Australian clubs, the rest being items of particular importance: “Wherever…